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countable and uncountable, plural feminisms
(obsolete) The state of being feminine; femininity. quotations
His hair is delicate and silky, and of a light chesnut[sic]—one of M. Lorrain's signs of feminism.
1875 July 24, The Medical Times and Gazette, volume II, page 105
A social theory or political movement which argues that legal and social restrictions on women must be removed in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life. quotations examples
Women are still forbidden to smoke there... Ardent though we are in feminism, we applaud this stand...
1926 November 27, “The Talk of the Town”, in The New Yorker, page 17
There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). Alongside and often overlapping with older-identified distinctions between liberal, socialist, radical and cultural feminisms, for example (important as they are in their different accounts of sexual difference and gender power), are variously named black, third-world ethnic-minority feminisms, themselves far from homogenous.
1996, Jan Jindy Pettman, Worlding Women: A feminist international politics, page ix-x
Ooh! “Even the ladies!” #feminism #confedera-she !
2017, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Confederacy”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO